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the same thing (mini-📝 33/100) - by Spencer Chang

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a ride through the clouds to Hawk Hill this past weekend They say that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, yet persistence is the key to success. I think you often have to repeat a wrong thing over and over in order to really internalize a learning. One lesson I have to continually relearn is that the best answers don't come easy, say in the form of a pithy saying or a matter-of-fact statement. The answers you end up holding on to are the ones you discover on your own. The answers that come after days of toiling and coming up short, of long streaks of searching without finding and pushing without moving. We usually determine value based on how valuable others find it, but for these sorts of answers, all that matters is how profound your heart finds it.

a ride through the clouds to Hawk Hill this past weekend They say that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, yet persistence is the key to success. I think you often have to repeat a wrong thing over and over in order to really internalize a learning. One lesson I have to continually relearn is that the best answers don't come easy, say in the form of a pithy saying or a matter-of-fact statement. The answers you end up holding on to are the ones you discover on your own. The answers that come after days of toiling and coming up short, of long streaks of searching without…

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